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Title: Rites of purification and their effects: Some psychological aspects of female genital circumcision and infibulation (Pharaonic circumcision) in an Afro-Arab Islamic society (Sudan).
Author: Lightfoot-Klein,-Hanny
Abstract:
Interviewed over 400 Sudanese women and men in all walks of life on the physical, emotional, and psychosexual effects of female genital circumcision and infibulation. Pharaonic circumcision is a culturally embedded practice interwoven with patrilineage, f
Journal: Journal-of-Psychology-and-Human-Sexuality; 1989 Vol 2(2) 79-91